Left keeps crying Jim Crow because Supreme Court rejected racial district games

For years, I have watched congressional maps become more and more absurd. They twisted down highways, jumped across rivers, and reached through paper-thin corridors just to reach yet another cluster of Black voters. These politicians were not drawing neighborhoods connected by proximity, common issues or shared interests - they were drawing by race. They would take a Black neighborhood here and then, miles away, figure out how to connect it to another Black neighborhood with a narrow strip of land so they could hit the right percentage.

That always bothered me. The same people who claim to speak for equality were perfectly willing to reduce Black citizens to pieces on a map. They did not see families, churches, schools or local communities. They saw census blocks and skin color. They called that representation. I always saw something more twisted in it. It said that Black people could not stand politically on their own. It said we had to be specially arranged, specially packaged and specially protected by a racial bureaucracy in order to matter.

You would never know that from the reaction on the left. Within days, the usual commentators were acting like this was 1955 in the Deep South. They said the Voting Rights Act had been gutted and demolished. It was like all of a sudden, we had gone back to literacy tests, poll taxes and clubs on the head for trying to register.

They are exploiting the old ghosts of racism to build their own brand. They are profiteering from fear. That is immoral.

That is disgusting.

We need faith in our own agency, confidence in our own voice, and the courage to stand under the same law as everyone else.

We are Americans. That is not racism. That is progress.